Needle 2 is a 45-million-parameter, 14MB model that turns plain-English commands into local Python function calls on a ...

The 14MB Needle 2 function-calling model lets a Raspberry Pi 5 turn natural-language instructions into local Python actions without an internet connection or AI accelerator.

The Raspberry Pi is a great machine to learn the ins and outs of blinking pins, but for doing anything that requires blinking pins fast, you’re better off going with a BeagleBone. This has been the ...

Raspberry Pi has launched a new product that would make it easier to build robots out of LEGO components. The Build HAT (or Hardware Attached on Top), as it is called, is an add-on device that plugs ...

If you’re building a CNC router, laser cutter, or even 3D printer, you’ll usually be looking at a dedicated controller. This board takes commands from a computer, often in the form of G-Code, and ...

There are only two simple on/off devices – the LED and the Buzzer. In this chapter we look at each in turn and learn how to create our own new custom on/off devices. The inheritance hierarchy for the ...

You might well start off with a single GPIO line flashing an LED, but slowly and surely you will graduate to more elaborate devices such as a robot that consists of a ...